Davutoğlu told Swiss officials that Turkey is ready to normalize ties with Armenia if the latter ‘withdraws from Karabakh,’ a source said.

President Serzh Sargsyan said Armenia always based on a complementary policy and “our colleagues agreed with us.”

Jean Asselborn: I hope we’ll have enough courage to tell the truth about Genocide to future generations and prevent recurrence of such atrocities.

Ashot Melkonyan: it was suspension of protocols that enabled the passage of Armenian Genocide bill at French Senate.

In August 2011, the protocols were removed from Turkish parliament’s agenda and were brought back in October.

“For the first time in the history of the country, Armenia’s diplomacy proved stronger than Turkey’s,” Richard Giragosian said.

“I doubt any agreement can be signed without prior coordination of every issue,” Armenian Foreign Minister said.

Kiro Manoyan: why did Turkey sign protocols if normalizing ties with Armenia was such a hard task to accomplish?